New owners hope to recapture magic of Paddock restaurant

Yarmouth family resort, Mashpee coffee shop also among new business developments.

Sean F. Driscoll @SeanFDriscoll

HYANNIS — After a brief turn as the Nor'Easter, the former Paddock restaurant at the West End Rotary is about to see its next incarnation this summer.

David Noble and Jen Villa have purchased the Nor'Easter and will reopen the 20 Scudder Ave. restaurant as The West End in June. Noble is the owner of emBargo, a Main Street bar and tapas restaurant; Villa is an artist and owner of The Local Juice, a cold-pressed juice bar on South Street. The restaurant will bring a "curated" dining experience to Hyannis' west end, Villa said, with a farm-to-table concept inspired by locally sourced ingredients.

Villa said the interior would be designed to accentuate much of the original architecture and 1930s-era vintage details found throughout the building.

"We're bringing back the heyday of when the Paddock was something people really loved," she said. "We're celebrating the luxury and beauty of a simpler time."

The West End will be open no later than July to catch the audiences coming and going from the Cape Cod Melody Tent, located just steps away on West Main Street. Villa said tying into the concert venue's summer season would be a must.

"We want to catch that audience and be able to handle both the dinner crowd beforehand and the flood of people catching a drink after the show," she said.

The sale was handled by Hyannis real estate agent Richard Catania. The listing notes the restaurant has 235 seats, 6,000 square feet and was listed for sale at $350,000, although the final sales price was not disclosed.

In other recent business sales around the Cape, the Town N' Country Motor Lodge, 452 Route 28, West Yarmouth, sold for $2.535 million to Joseph Marrama, doing business as T & C Holdings LLC. Marrama owns the nearby Cape Cod Inflatable Park and recently bought the Wings beachwear store to expand the park's water offerings.

The sale was handled by Hyannis real estate agent Chuck Carey and closed March 1.

The hotel features two heated outdoor pools and one indoor pool, a playground and game room, according to the listing.

Marrama said he would rename the hotel the Town and Country Family Resort to mirror the name of the Cape Cod Family Resort, located next door to the inflatable park and offering its guests free admission to the amusement attraction. This year the Town and Country will offer its guests discounted admission, but the free passes will become part of the package in 2018, he said.

The option of additional hotel rooms near his park was an attractive one, Marrama said.

"(Cape Cod Family Resort) is pretty much at 100 percent occupancy in the summer," he said, adding that the property is open only when the inflatable park is operating. The Town and Country will have a longer season, but he said he was undecided if it would operate year-round.

Marrama said he planned to reopen the hotel in late June after finishing extensive interior and exterior renovations.

In Mashpee, Cape Cod Coffee plans to open a cafe in Mashpee Commons no later than May. Located at 40 Market St. near the Organic Market, the cafe will feature a more traditional coffee shop experience than what is available at the 348 Main St. facility where the beans are roasted and packaged for wholesale customers.

"When the opportunity came up, we thought it was the right thing for us to do," said owner Jan Aggerbeck. "We weren't looking to go into retail, but people kept asking us why we weren't at the Commons."

The cafe will offer bagels, doughnuts, cold brew, nitro cold brew and a selection of coffee beans for sale, in addition to the traditional brews, he said. Renovations to the space will begin in the next week or so, he said.